Agricola: All Creatures Big and Small
Includes the first expansion More Buildings Big and Small!
Agricola: All Creatures Big & Small is a digital adaptation of Uwe Rosenberg’s award-winning two-player board game featuring farming and livestock breeding.
You’re in charge of growing a farm from its simple beginnings — just a hut and some fields. Send your workers to the village market to barter for goods and livestock. Breed different animals. Eventually, with your ever-growing animal population and special buildings, you’ll compete against your neighbors to see who has the best farm!
You only have three workers in each of the eight rounds, so make your decisions count. Play against AI, or claim your plot on a worldwide leaderboard and become a strategy game legend.
KEY FEATURES:
1. Experience another faithful boardgame conversion from the studio behind Le Havre: The Inland Port and Patchwork.
2. Engage in exciting 1v1 cross-platform multiplayer matches against players from all over the world.
3. Focus on breeding the largest and most varied livestock.
4. Use the Playback feature to review your best games and learn new tricks from the pros.
5. Stay on your toes with challenging AI.
Steam User 28
A good adaptation of the board game (All Creatures Big and Small, the smaller, 2 players version of Agricola, focused on animal husbandry). The interface works well, all is quick and clear. You can easily access the different screens and find information: your farm, the main board with the different actions (just click on them to see what they do), your adversary's farm. The tutorial is good. I also wanted to see the written rules, so I checked the board game manual on the net. For the moment, I'm still a beginner and I played against the AI (three levels of difficulty). The game is fun, not too difficult to learn, with interesting strategic possibilities. This adaptation is essentially the same than the mobile version (I think), including the extension. I just have minor nitpicks: it's written "tap" on the first screen, and there are no tooltips for the first menu buttons (at the beginning, I was wondering how to continue a game in progress - second button on the right). The graphics are nice enough, close to the board game, and the music and sound effects fit well with the theme.
Steam User 12
Be careful: Artificially underrated game.
Most of players were expecting Agricola because they don't even know this 2-player version "All Creatures..." from 2012.
This is the port of the Mobile game.
Pros : Good adaptation of the game. Extension included. Online+Split screen.
Cons : Mobile interface (no work to adapt to mouse or controller)
Conclusion: to buy at 50% off if you already know another player.
Steam User 14
Agricola is a very good two player game and I like it very much. It is a low priced game that could entertain you for hours and hours in competative game play or just a few minutes per game to beat the AI or your best friend. It´s up to you.
"Agricola: All Creatures Big and small" is a good port from the board game to the digital world. Digidiced did it well to stay close to the original board game from Uwe Rosenberg. The game introduce you in the famers life by build up stables and pastures to gather and breed different animals. All rescourses living and natural have to be chosen wisely step by step as there is an opponent farmer on the other side of the fence that will go for their own good or constrain you in your effort to get your farm up and running. Watch out carefully what he is doing on the other side or follow up our own plan to win the match.
The game itself is divided in 3 steps per round and 8 rounds per game where you are able to choose to pick from different rescourses like wood and stone and wool or grassland or animals for breeding. Just a few samples - there are more available - you will figure them out easilly by playing the game. If you are stuck you could as well read the tutorial.
It could be played against another player in ranking style or by free game just to enjoy it. Matches against other players could be played right away in direct play or asynchron what will give you the time to play it over the day in any break or by free time in between. I really like this possibility!
You could play as well against 1 of 3 different AI´s from easy to difficult. If you are a rookie in the game the difficult AI will challenge you in different ways and tactics. Watch out what it is doing.
The game is including the first addon what give you the possibility to play with more than a dozen different buildings (4 by each game which you could choose by pick upfront or randomly by surprise) to bring up new tactics and possibilities.
The upside down of the game could be this asynchron play type that you could choose. Some people would like the way to play a handfull or more games simultaneously and are able to do it that way others won´t. I don´t think that it interfere the quality of the game itself what is really high and very well.
Just my two cents. Hope this review help you and I see you around for a farmers challenge. :-)
Steam User 2
One of the best 2 player board games in digital form. A bit clunky on controls and English translations, but still fun.
Steam User 3
A fantastic, smooth, adaptation of an amazing board game with support for Linux, Mac, and Windows.
Agricola: All Creatures Big and Small is one of legendary designer Uwe Rosenburg's better known games, and is well worth repeated play. This adaptation is a perfect translation of the board game to the screen, and I couldn't be more impressed.
My only complaint is that these developers don't have the licence for the full Agricola game, and haven't (yet!) adapted some of his other classics. I'd love to see At the Gates of Loyang, Ora et Labora, Caverna, or Glass Road here.
Steam User 1
A simple worker placement game where you can balance or focus your animal breeding to maximize victory points for your farm
Steam User 1
Great game if your looking for a game to play individually against the computer. The game shows it has a play against your friends option but every time I've tried to use it that component of it fails. Is a great way to practice your strategy skills with this game for when you play the physical board game with your friends